Trucker Trivia: School Busses

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  1. May 17, 2016 #1
    truckthatpassesyouby

    truckthatpassesyouby Road Train Member

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    You're traveling on a highway with solid double yellow lines that devide the 4 lanes. It's not a street, it has no median, and it's a US highway.

    A school bus on the opposite side of the highway makes a complete stop and turns on their All Stop lights to pick up students. What do you do?
     
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  3. May 17, 2016 #2
    Toothpick1

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    stop, because there is no median barrier.
     
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    PackRatTDI

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    Blow by and give the devil horns sign.
     
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  5. May 17, 2016 #4
    Longarm

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    I know, at least in Ohio, opposing traffic doesn't stop in that situation.
     
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  7. May 17, 2016 #5
    MidWest_MacDaddy

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    I think I would have to agree with this one...

    At first I was thinking the same as @Toothpick1 but I just don't think the school system would expect kids to cross four lanes of potential traffic.

    I am probably wrong but I don't believe a stop is require... But that to may vary by State.
     
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  8. May 17, 2016 #6
    JPenn

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    In NY, you stop. Even if it's on the opposite side of a divided highway. Another lesser-known caveat: you are not to resume motion until the school bus itself starts moving (or as directed by a police officer or the bus driver)...NOT when the lights go off. NYS VTL 1174.

    Disclaimer: my wife is a school bus driver.
     
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    TROOPER to TRUCKER

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    Oops sorry looked at it wrong. Here 4 lanes you don't stop.
     
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    Longarm

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    How is a former LEO unsure on this one?? :p
     
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  11. May 17, 2016 #9
    dngrous_dime

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    They make it up as they go??? Aka, "officer discretion"... :p
     
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  12. May 17, 2016 #10
    buzzarddriver

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    You would be required to stop. Only if the road had a dividing median would it not require a stop.
     
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